Strauss and the Straussians

January 1, 2018
Everything I have seen of the Straussians over the years leads me to the unfortunate conclusion that they are agenda-driven political intellectuals.
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An Ideal Vital Center?

January 1, 2018
Never does Green allow an early American leader to escape his carping scrutiny. He insists that George Washington was “an unmitigated snob whose personal integrity was protected by his social status at the top of the heap.”
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Which Liberalism? Which Soul?

September 8, 2017
It may be possible to make Walsh’s hermeneutic inclusiveness work, but there is no evidence it does, and certainly not on the basis of his lavishing of liberal certificates upon a multitude of dead and living thinkers.
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[Poem] The Cynic

May 30, 2017
We who worry along paths our ancestors took with surer steps, what is left to us? Is it to lie…
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